this is a truly blessed and happy morning for me..
so much of my life has been caught up in the anti-war movement, so much of my life changed when US invaded Afghanistan and then Iraq, and when the evils of the past found there way into my own generation's experience..
While it is by no means over, and in many respects this indeed a superficial and media oriented show, truly it is a good day, as 70,000 active combat troops leaving a war zone they have terrorized for nearly eight years is a MIRACLE! The problem, there are 50,000 more
plus, experience tells us that these 50,000 will perhaps be even MORE active on patrols and forward operations in tandom with iraqi forces, and so the war is by no means over, in some respects it is barely starting up, but I take my small victories when and where i can, and it is so fucking relieving to be able to say those words out loud, "The final combat brigade left Iraq this morning"
